2008/2009

This is A Compilation of Music we did in 2008 & 2009. Some of the tracks you might know from previous posts, while others are unreleased until now.
"CD 1" shows some new tracks of Egomania, Members Solo Project, some pieces of "Der Berg Groovt", Members Hippie Neighbour Collective, and the complete soundcheck of "Damo Suzuki & The Whole"'s last concert in december last year.
The focus on "CD 2" is on "MIRG", "Steffi & Stolle" & "Stolle & Member". Steffi & Stolle is a one of our rare and always delightful "half-mirg"-projects. Steffi & Stolle are the two singer/songwriter type of musicians, while the other two Marcus & Member are more kind of a free flow kind and not so well musically educated.... whatever that means. This is the first time Steffi & Stolle joined as a duo, because Steffi wished to make a Blues record with Stolle. They met last year at Stolle's place and did some wonderful and very recommended recordings, although not quite Blues. Listen to it here for the first time, and maybe we are posting more of this beautiful music. Same thing with the music of MIRG. We meet just once a year, making the most beautiful music, record it ... just to disappear in our archives. Here are three incredible pieces made during our last meeting at the Akademie Reuschberg.
The Stolle & Member tracks were posted here before.
Enjoy this ride through our constantly changing Universe.

Get the whole thing here and here.

Sous les pieds la terRemixed

We took part in a Remix thing with our projects MIRG and Der Berg Groovt.

One year ago, Philippe Baudouin (aka Monsieur Tympan - phonographer) and Alexandre Manzanares (photographer) have produced a sound and photographic documentary about rural world, available on CD, called "Sous les pieds, la terre" (which means "Under the feet, the land"). To realize this project, they have collected sounds and pictures of people and landscapes they've met on the road: old country people, kids in garden, sounds of agricultural tools, beauty of mountains... In September 2008, Philippe decided to put online 30 samples of the sounds he recorded and to collaborate with Headphonica to release on their netlabel. With this sound samples, everyone was invented to make his own remix. The idea was to propose people to appropriate these field-recordings and to make a subjective remix. Even if these different sounds come from a very little part of the world (Vaucluse, France), the 80 remixes they've received show us the universality of these ones.

Here is the result sent by people from all over the world!

Enjoy yourself!

Gustavo Jobim And Friends - Belles Alliances 2008

One year ago the brazillian keyboarder Gustavo Jobim called for collaboration for his new CD "Abstract Painings" via the "faust-mailing-list". Member was one among 11 others, who answered this call and now the collaboration CD is finnished and this is the track list:

1. I Tasted Jobim (5:11) GJ + The Chorlton Radiophonic Workshop (USA)

2. Joan Mitchell's Ici (16:28) GJ + That Hideous Strength (USA)

3. Untitled (10:57) GJ + Nathan Siter (USA/Finland)

4. Untitled (2:15) GJ + Conrad Schnitzler (Germany)

5. Musica Sem Nome (5:58) GJ + Helder Correia (Portugal)

6. Crepusculum (1:34) GJ + Amyr Cantusio Jr. (Brazil)

7. Will-o'-the-Wisp (2:09) GJ + Robert Jaz (USA)

8. Summer Breeze (5:56) GJ + Member (Germany)

9. Untitled (3:54) GJ + Daniel Bordini (Brazil)

10. Untitled (9:28) GJ + Leandro Theodorico (Brazil)

11. Abstract Painted Train (9:59) GJ + Ronny Waernes (Norway)

12. Cyprinodontiform Manifesto (2:12) GJ + Justynn Tyme (USA)

You will find the download link here on Gustavo Jobims Homepage. You can choose between two links in mp3 320 kbps or in flac, both with the complete artwork in pdf.
It is a great honour for Member to be part of this project and every artist involved in this project did a great job, among them Conrad Schnitzler one of the founders of Tangerine Dream and Kluster who had a deep impact on the music of the emptyblaukraut universe and is surely one of our hereos...
....so don't miss this....it's really fantastic music
enjoy!!!

WE'RE LATE FOR CLASS vs. STOLLE & MEMBER - RAINY DAY SCHATTENWOELFE

STOLLE & MEMBER sagen:
"Unsere zweite Zusammenarbeit mit WE'RE LATE FOR CLASS. Nachdem wir vor Kurzem einen Overdub zu ihrem Stück Galerienmusik machten, gaben wir ihnen einen basic track aus unserer unveröffentlichten 10 CD Box "THE REUSCHBERG SESSIONS" - Aufnahmen aus dem Jahr 2003 zur Zeit unserer "REUSCHBERG" CD. Obwohl sich WE'RE LATE FOR CLASS schwer tun mit Overdubs... sie kriegen oft ihr eigenes Zeug nicht fertig, scheint es diesmal geflutscht und sie auch noch im Anschluß zu einem Faust Cover Song getrieben zu haben.
Wir sind begeistert über das Ergebnis, empfehlen jedem ihre Musik weiter und harren gespannt auf weitere Blüten dieser Kollaboration."

WE'RE LATE FOR CLASS says:
"So these strange German guys, Stolle & Member, took one of our tracks and overdubbed it (it's called "In The Gallery"). Then they sent us one of their basic tracks (from their 2003 Reuschberg album sessions) and suggested we do the same. So... here you go. Since the first half of S&M's 20 minute basic track was heavy on atmosphere, we kinda took over the proceedings. During the second half, S&M reigned supreme. Because it was a rainy day outside, we almost turned this into a cover of Faust's "It's A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl" but wisely decided against that. Although... we then unwisely went ahead and recorded an improvisational cover of the classic Faust song anyway. Since we're sort of hangin' around with Germans now we apparently think it's OK to do that sort of thing. Shelly predicts we won't sell a single copy. We're all inclined to agree. Our parts were recorded last week, October 7, 2007."

Enjoy
Stolle & Member

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STOLLE & MEMBER vs. WE'RE LATE FOR CLASS - IN THE GALLERY

Unsere Freunde von "WE’RE LATE FOR CLASS" haben sich freundlicherweise bereit erklärt, uns den basic track für dieses Stück zu liefern.
Wir stellten uns vor eine Vernissage zu besuchen
– und heraus kam das.
Our friends from "WE’RE LATE FOR CLASS" kindly delivered the basic track for this one.
We imagined us beeing at a vernissage and came up with our take on it.
Enjoy
Stolle & Member

IN THE GALLERY